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Communists on campus : race, politics, and the public university in sixties North Carolina
- Title
- Communists on campus : race, politics, and the public university in sixties North Carolina / William J. Billingsley.
- Author
- Billingsley, William J., 1953-
- Publication
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©1999.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 308 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "North Carolina's 1963 speaker ban law declared the state's public college and university campuses off-limits to "known members of the Communist Party" or to anyone who cited the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer questions posed by any state or federal body. Oddly enough, the law was passed in a state where there had been no known communist activity since the 1950s. Just which "communists" was it attempting to curb? In Communists on Campus, William J. Billingsley bares the truth behind the false image of the speaker ban's ostensible concern.
- Appearing at a critical moment in North Carolina and U.S. history, the law marked a last-ditch effort by conservative rural politicians to increase conservative power and quell the demands of the civil rights movement, preventing the feared urban political authority that would accompany desegregation and African American political participation. Questioning the law's discord with North Carolina's progressive reputation, Billingsley also criticizes the school officials who publicly appeared to oppose the speaker ban law but, in reality, questioned both civil rights legislation and student's rights to political opinions.
- Exposing the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the main target of the ban, he addresses the law's intent to intimidate state schools into submitting to reactionary legislative demands at the expense of the students' political freedom."--Jacket.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Academic freedom > North Carolina > History > 20th century
- Universities and colleges > Law and legislation > North Carolina
- Education > Political aspects > History > North Carolina > 20th century
- Anti-communist movements > North Carolina > History > 20th century
- Academic freedom
- Anti-communist movements
- Education > Political aspects
- Universities and colleges > Law and legislation
- Akademische Freiheit
- Antikommunismus
- College
- Ethnische Beziehungen
- Hochschule
- Universität
- Anticommunisme
- Academische vrijheid
- Rassenvraagstuk
- Civil Rights Movement
- Universiteiten
- Academic freedom > North Carolina > History > 20th century
- Anti-communist movements > North Carolina > History > 20th century
- Education > Political aspects > North Carolina > 20th century
- Universities and colleges > Law and legislation > North Carolina
- North Carolina
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-299) and index.
- Contents
- The "speaker ban" law -- Student radicalism and the university -- The streets of Raleigh -- The 1963 General Assembly -- Making a case for revision -- The accreditation threat -- Rethinking the speaker ban -- An anticommunist speaker policy -- Freeing the university -- Confrontation in Chapel Hill -- The speaker ban goes to court -- Beyond the speaker ban.
- ISBN
- 0820321095
- 9780820321097
- 0820324604
- 9780820324609
- LCCN
- 99011408
- OCLC
- ocm40602891
- 40602891
- SCSB-1031219
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library